Support Announcement:

The International Doctoral Program in Linguistics 'Theory of Language and Applied Linguistics' (LIPP) - from 2013 on a department of the new Graduate School Language and Literature Munich (L&L Munich) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität - is offering a doctoral student position (TV-L E13, 50%, 2,5 years with evaluation after the first year; start of employment April 2013) for excellent candidates to work on a linguistic research project in one of the program's research fields: 'Phenomenology of Language', 'Empirical study of natural languages and its methodology' 'Language and Society', 'Language Theory and Language Modelling'.

Doctoral students enjoy excellent conditions in an interdisciplinary environment with around 50 participants working on a broad variety of linguistic topics. The program is research oriented and has a systematically structured interdisciplinary curriculum. It offers an individual and intensive advisory program for doctoral candidates, an international guest-speaker program, financial support for international research projects as well as a variety of courses to strengthen personal and analytical skills. Double-degrees within the framework of 'Cotutelle de Thèse' are supported. Application requirements are a university degree with a grade above average (Magister Artium, diploma, state board examination, Master of Arts ('with thesis'), Maîtrise, Laurea, etc.) in a linguistic subject, very good knowledge of German (courses are held in German), working knowledge of English and at least one other language. We especially welcome students with degrees from outside of Germany. Students are expected to participate actively in the program and to have a good ability to work in teams.